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Originally Posted by KC911
What would you say about a star football player who was on scholarship for four years, eventually playing for the NY Giants and left college still being unable to read at a functional level? I knew him fwiw....
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I would say, like I always do in these cases, that the school was to blame, both in matriculation of the "student" and continuing to keep him on scholarship. They knew that if he didn't play for them, he'd play for another school.
College football and basketball are businesses. To pretend otherwise is a bit naive. The school, a business, brought him in and failed him as a person.
What would you have preferred the person you referenced above have done?
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Originally Posted by KC911
The other Paul's point is just as valid as yours.... for a significant number of football and b-ball "students" imo.
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No. His point wasn't a point, it was an accusation without particular merit.
After I was hurt, I tutored the football players at my university as well as two JC's to make money. I have seen the absolute bottom of the scholastic curve doing so. But the percentages of that were low in my experience and the desire, and recognition of their academic deficiencies was very positive, especially with the JC kids who wanted to get to the next level.
I played football in HS: B+ talent in an A+ world. What shocked me, and if you haven't seen it up close it is jarring, is the absolute mayhem on a college football field. These young men are in multiple car crashes every week for months.
So, when you talk intellect and your experience in college, people you knew, get hit like they do and, in pain, go excel in class.
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Originally Posted by KC911
I guess he struck a nerve....
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Don't guess, he did.
I actually wrote the NCAA a letter explaining what needs to be done. The players were Serfs, they are not anymore and for the life of me I can't figure out why we all do not applaud them.